Holmé
surname · Latin script
Holmé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main development was towards modem English holly (see Hollis).
- NONorway1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 12K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,502 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Holme in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NO Norway and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main development was towards modem English holly (see Hollis).
Cited for this meaning 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Holmé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #584 | 1,502 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.5K | Holme | 48 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | Holme | 138 |
| US United States | — | 494 | 1 in 673K | 614 | Holme | 190 |
| DK Denmark | #695 | 490 | 1 in 12K | 490 | Holme | 73 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Holme | 58 |
| SE Sweden | — | 58 | 1 in 176K | 58 | Holme | 15 |
1,502 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Holmé mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main development was towards modem English holly (see Hollis). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Holmé have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Holmé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holme.
- Where is Holmé most common?
- Holmé is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Holmé?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,502 people named Holmé, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Holmé compared with other names?
- In Norway, Holmé is the 584th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/holm%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Holmé” — the 584th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.